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System options, units, and templates

System options, units, and templates - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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System options, units, and templates

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be looking at system options, units and templates. Now, up at the top of your screen, you more than likely have, this little icon here that looks like a gear. And that is where your system options are hiding underneath. So go ahead and click on that right there. And you can see in here, that we've got a lot of system options. So, this tab at the top is your basic system options, which are universal. So no matter which part you're opening or working with, these are always going to be there. And then you also have document properties. So that's pertaining only to the part you have open, right now, or the template that you use to start with. If you want to modify these, so the next part you open up, has the modified values. You need to switch to a different template or save, a template. So first things first, let's take a look at system options, right over here. We can see a…

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